The small neck in the back of this piece can be used to fill the bottle with hot water. It is sealed with a cork.

Before vegetables came vegetation, but this was Peter's first actual vegetable. These early pieces were very thin and delicate.

While teaching summer school at Alfred University Peter noticed that everyone there was a "Pot Head". All they did was throw. So Peter threw a bunch of cylinders and put them together because, "I'm not much of a potter. I can't throw really large forms." When he got back, in the fall of 1975 he started making hand built busts and heads.

Rather than throw a large form, Peter coiled the form up making the coils obvious and working from the inside, pushed the features out. This is one of the few full figures he made. "I didn't get a lot of satisfaction out of making the full figures."